Just picked up a Friends set

Went to my local toy shop and was happily surprised to see a bunch of Friends set. Everything was on the shelf except for Olivia's house, the dog show, and the talent show. The girls decided to get 3931, Emma's pool or something like that for 6 euros. Nice little set. Paired Emma up with the French artiste CMF series 4 and the two got along very well.

How does the fig compare? I don't know Polly Pockets or even Belville, I know Playmobil. The figs are a cross between Playmobil and LEGO. Emma's got big, big eyes, a sweet face, a raised button nose (!), with a pointed chin (!!). Her hair is rubbery and very detailed with a braid. Beautiful printing on her shirt with a metallic flowery graphic, and her shoes are printed, too. When you put the artist beside her, she's about a 1 cm taller. Comes in the same number of pieces as a reg fig - head, torso, legs, hair. Her proportions are the most dramatic difference - she's elongated, longer arms and longer legs and skinny like hell. Full articulation everywhere -head spins, arms turn, torso bows - except for one key area: her legs are like playmobil figs, fully immobile, you can't do a split like you can with the regular figs.

The set itself is small but nice, beautiful pastel colours like pale pink and lime green. The pool has some nice transparent blue pieces.

The girls liked it, so we might get the treehouse 20e or cafe 30e when it goes on sale.

Comments

That's really nice for the pastel colors, which are rarer. I'm still not a fan of the non-standard figures, so I'll limit my purchases next year. Unknown which figures my daughter will like. She's not yet playing with her Duplos much .

Where are you in the States? I don't have a problem doing a trade. To ensure it gets to you in time for Christmas, you may have to consider express international delivery which could be expensive just for the shipping alone.

I will say I don't think France has a monopoly on newly released sets, and I would bet that there's a good chance Friends might pop up on store shelves stateside before Christmas. Remember that the Superheroes official release date is the 15th, but already there have been many in-store sightings.

It's already in the stores? And I thought it's supposed to be released in April. Less time to collect money to get all the sets, not good.So I guess the Friends' hair don't fit the regular minifigs?I think these figures are cute but they will be replaced with my homeless minifigures :)

The Friends fig's hair is interchangeable with regular minifigs. None of the other parts are - torso, legs, head. Emma is the same height as CMF Cleapatra, so look at any LEGO female with a wedge piece and there's your Friends fig in scale. I'll see if I have time to download a pic.